Lürssen (or Lürssen Werft) is a German shipbuilding company based in Bremen-Vegesack.
Lürssen designs and constructs yachts, naval ships and special vessels. Trading as Lürssen Yachts, it is one of the leading builders of custom superyachts such as Paul Allen's Octopus and David Geffen's Rising Sun, one of the largest privately owned yachts in the world.
Naval ships built by Lürssen include:
- Many E boats of World War II, based on Lürssen's design for Otto Hermann Kahn's private yacht Oheka II
- World War II R boat minesweepers, including the first minesweeper (1929) fitted with a Voith Schneider propeller (R8)
- Jaguar class fast attack craft
- Seeadler class fast attack craft
- Zobel class fast attack craft
- Tiger class fast attack craft
- Frankenthal class mine hunter
- Kılıç class fast attack missile corvette
Lürssen is currently also involved with the building of Braunschweig class corvettes and is part of the ARGE F125 joint-venture designing the F125 class frigate.
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